How To Count Latin Dances | Cha Cha, Samba, Rumba and Jive Tutorial

In this video Amanda teaches how to count Cha Cha, Samba, Rumba and Jive basic steps. First, she explains different ways of counting each basic step. Then, she demonstrates basic steps with music.
0:00 Intro
0:11 Cha Cha Cha Counts
2:26 Cha Cha with Music
3:02 Samba Counts
5:09 Samba with Music
5:25 Rumba Counts
6:56 Rumba with Music
7:27 Jive Counts
9:02 Jive with Music
9:23 Outro
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[@momo90416]

EXCELLENT video and instruction! Understanding this is so important for each dance. Thank you for also showing how it might be varied (cha-cha, for example). That helps avoid confusion later. Again - thanks so much for this!!!

[@mynguyen145]

Thanks you,very good help for me.That’s the easy way for beginners.

[@davidmiller4078]

Yeah thanx Amanda as a musician i thought i would be able to understand the counting side of things but this has confirmed and clarified the mystery Obrigardo

[@giovannabrandolini7389]

Thank you for your video, I love It! You are the best🥰 from Rome 😃

[@katerinatomas4448]

very helpful for a show I'm in! Gracias

[@victoriagallipani5753]

Very helpful, explained well. Thank you.

[@calixtegeorges6256]

Good I learn some good stuff from you

[@truthandlife4101]

Thank you very helpful as always .

[@saurabhchandra4897]

I loved it! So nice ways that you described bydancing on them! I still sometime struggle on cha cha songs when cha cha beats are not so strong and recognizable and when those beats come in between I feel why am I not precisely on that!

[@TeresA-xc4og]

Stupendous - thank you. Dance gives health & chases all concerns away.

[@nataljaruda5451]

Ваші відео - справжнє мистецтво. Да, а яке чудове відео з Сантами) 💐💐💐

[@troybryan425]

Very helpful for newbies and people who struggle to count (like me). Is it possible to do a ballroom one as find Foxtrot, Tango and Quickstep hard to stay in time with 🕺💃

[@maryloumorales3817]

Thank you for your videos! Love the intermediate and advanced videos! In the 3 cha cha’s with music, the first one starts on 1; the second starts on 4 and; the third one starts on 2. Is that correct?

[@375DanceStudio]

You got it! 😄

[@ilijazeljkovic]

Thanks!

[@375DanceStudio]

Thank you very much! 🙏🙏🙏

[@phitu1215]

Thank you for you sharing! Because of the 2nd beat of rumba rhythm is soft, I like to put it in count step 1 (hold) of Int'l Rumba. Could I put count step 2 with 3rd beat of rumba rhythm instead of matching step 2 with 1st beat of Rumba music rhythm? So the sequential order step count in one rhythm bar is: "4, 1, 2, 3"

[@375DanceStudio]

Sure, whatever helps and as long as you're not planing on competing 😄

[@cassievoo2]

❤️👍

[@HARPAULSANDHU]

💕💕💕💕

[@fattanemuch8264]

😘😘😘

[@gameslayer3490]

Does it matter on what genre is being played while doing the cha cha cha?

[@shawnmercado2456]

what song did you use in samba?

[@karolbielen2090]

Hi, I've got some problems understanding rumba - could you please tell me which instrument(s) am I supposed to listen to in the song you danced to? 6:57

[@375DanceStudio]

Usually the bass indicates count 1 pretty clearly 😄

[@Gogobrendon8964]

For woman steps,should left foot first or right foot first?

[@amandabesyedin1331]

If you are dancing solo then it doesn’t matter which foot you start on. When dancing with a partner typically the lady starts with left foot!

[@Maxine5515]

Please face away from the audience so we can easily follow